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Im'e gonna give it a shot when my shop warms up in a couple of weeks,i have a few Gunto mounted swords that need to be relined also.Carving an all wood saya to fit a sword nicely can be a little rough let alone trying to fit it into an existing space.Some of the liners iv'e been able to pull out and examine came pretty close to breaking out in some areas.As far as banging out dents,a few yrs back i did some work on one that was banged up near the opening,just took some aluminum bar stock and made a couple of "dollies" that i pushed into the opening and then tapped on the outside to reshape with a wooden mallet.Having seen enough dented Gunto saya i always thought of a freinds father that repaired musical instruments(tubas,trombones etc)He had an assortment of "dollies" that fit down the tubes of these instuments(like short tapered steel mandrels attached to a cable)He would do as i described,push these down to the dented area and tap with a soft mallet til the dent popped out,may be worth my while to make some of these and give it a try too Greg

Just posted these pics on a Japanese woodworking forum so while i was at it i thought id'e post them here just for anyones records(Ishido Teruhide made very high quality kanna(planes) GregD

look like a yariganna,a Japanese woodworking tool used to plane surfaces. Here is a smaller Namazori,5th,6th&7nt from the left Greg

From Fuller&Gregorys

Could be KaneZumi,as soon as the camera battery is charged ill'e send oshigata pics Greg

I went to the exibit,spare of the moment last Sunday and boy am i glad i did.Get to examine swords that you could only dream about. Greg

YoshiNao

From Fuller and Gregorys for comparison Greg

The first one could be NoriNaga,the last one has that chippy Showa mei that im'e trying to compare with some of the characters in an old Fuller & Gregory's i have---- could be YoshiKiyo

KikuHide Greg

The skeleton menuki (Sekigahara) is neet and desireable,usually you just find the skull on fittings.The rest is a hodge-podge of,in my opinion,some decent quality fittings.The shakudo birds on the iron koshira arent badly carved.Wouldent mind seeing the other side of the fuchi,looks like priest bead motif.Overall the tree-bark branch thing is either buisinessman or "retired"(seen this referance in regard to this style of fittings)samurai. Greg

bottom character,right side leg is crossed differently

Youre help with this is much appreciated.Even some of the Japanese gentlemen that i had look at this werent sure what it was reffering to,a patriotic catch phrase or something along that line(or a patriotic group).In regard to the soot methode of prepairing the oshigata,i have never heard anything negative about it but now that I have a decent digital camera i will refraine from doing it again. Again,thanks GregD

...or for your enjoyment.A sword by Horii SadaMitsu.Not sure how the whole mei translates but it seems theres more info than just a name and a date.Wouldnt mind some help.Sword is 31-3/8'' long.

From John Slough's book.NagaMura KiyoNobu

A sword by the same smith,folded and oil tempered.A photocopy(pre digital camera) of a sword by Amahide,also folded and oil tempered. Greg

Lets put it this way,here is a Showa-to im'e working on.I dont expect to get half that for it. Greg Notice the difference?

This is fatal Greg

This sword(or one like it)was the subject of another post(Railway mark by Stephen). Here is another by this smith.Its Showato(Showa stamped)apparently folded steel but oil tempered. Greg

No,when the suriagi was done the new yasuri was stopped before the mei to retain as much as the old yasuri and mei as possible.Sometimes you will see this done with mumei swords or swords where most of the mei is removed,an area is retained if possible for ID and oridginal sabe for a guess at the age Greg

I would just be curious about the tsuba,a field repair-made,late? Greg

Havent seen to many "star stamped" Rikugun Jumei Tosho in Gunto mounts,usually in "44 pattern Gunto(erroniously"Marine landing" swords)Usually these swords are of better quality than most blades you will find in these mounts. Greg

They do look like bottom of the barrel repair parts,if you really want to do sword repair such as umegane(fill in ware or openings in sword skin)you want sections of the ji between the kissaki and the nakago,and at that,sections that will match the hada and color of the steel the best. Greg

Good bit of info K Morita,thank you. Also thanks for the welcome here Carlo(and Brian from the other post) Greg

maybe this will help,a friend had a sword by this smith some years ago,shinsa said modern factory made.Stiill a nice looking sword,profuse ayasugi hada.This is the info i have from F&Gs Greg